Obituary: Ozaukee County, Wisconsin: Owen McKENNEY ************************************************************************ Submitted by Mary Saggio, September 2007 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ The Cedarburg News July 15, 1885 SAD ACCIDENT Yesterday morning at about eight o'clock as an extra train comprised of the steam shovel and boarding cars of the M & N Ry. passed this station on its way to Green Bay one of the men, Owen McKENNEY by name, employed as fireman on the steam shovel stood on top of the high boarding cars. Just at the end of the depot platform the telegraph wires, five in number, cross the track and lead into the office, when nearing these wires the conductor warned McKENNEY to look out for them, but he must not have heard the warning, the wires struck McKENNEY and knocked him down between two cars, head foremost, four cars passed over him. When picked up, his head was completely severed from his body, both legs and one arm were cut off and his head and body fearfully mangled, he was dead instantly. McKENNEY was unmarried and has no relations in this country; he was 53 years of age.